Ryan Kobayashi died of a ‘broken heart’ after searching for his missing daughter Hannah in the darkest corners of down-and-out downtown Los Angeles, friends reported.

Ryan, 58, took his own life on Saturday night at a building near LAX, one of the last places Hannah was seen. 

His death came 11 days after his daughter, 30, vanished from the same airport.

Hannah remains missing and her family is desperate to find her. Now, they are coping with the double tragedy of Ryan’s death.  

WHAT WAS SAID

‘He just broke…he died of a broken heart. There’s no foul play. It’s a tragedy,’ Larie Pidgeon, Hannah’s 45-year-old aunt told DailyMail.com. 

‘He had been searching for 11 days, very minimal sleep – going into areas of downtown Los Angeles, seeing the s£x workers and Skid Row – and we believe as the days continued to pass it became too much for him to bear and he took his own life.

‘None of us saw it coming. Ryan is one of the kindest, most sensitive men that you’ve ever met. He’s a teddy bear,’ she said.

Hannah and her father had been estranged, she said, but there was nothing that would have stopped him joining in the search for her. 

‘He was estranged from his daughter. They didn’t have the best relationship and he wasn’t there for her growing up but (in the end) he was there for her when it mattered. He came here when it mattered.

‘He was getting 30 minutes sleep a night, tossing and turning,’ she added. 

‘We’ve suffered two tragedies but we are doing our best to stay strong.

‘There’s only so much we can take and we are all at our breaking point and we do really, really want to find Hannah because she’s still missing.

‘We need your help to share this story.’

Ryan Kobayashi was last seen on Saturday evening.